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Johnson proposed a Cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development, which would serve as "a focal point for thought and innovation and imagination about the problems of our cities." The new department would absorb the present Housing and Home Finance Agency, help cities draw up metropolitan-area plans for orderly growth, train local planners, administer federal grants to states and cities for planning studies, and support research into new building techniques to reduce overall construction costs...
Obviously, that kind of growth takes much of the heat off the four-year colleges. California's master plan, for example, calls for its junior colleges to absorb 50,000 students by 1975 who otherwise would have qualified for entrance to the state university. But the statistics do not fully measure the true value of the junior colleges, which lies in their distinctive multiple functions...
There were, of course, some specks on the economic scene. Johnson and his economic advisers are particularly concerned about how to absorb some 500,000 more teen-agers into the work force this year. Says the council report: "The great increase in the number of young, inexperienced workers constitutes the most important change in the labor force during this decade." They are also worried about the possibility of a prolonged steel strike, the continuing drain on U.S. gold, and "disturbing" pressures toward inflation. Johnson pledged that "the full resources of this nation" will be used to keep the gold value...
...building 30 two-year community colleges which are administrated by county school boards and located so that 70% of all students are within commuting distance. Florida Atlantic, built on the site of a former U.S. Air Force base, opened four months ago as a two-year senior college to absorb graduates of the community colleges. Classes will begin at Pensacola in 1967, and at Orlando a year later. Enrollment, currently 40,000, is expected to rise to 135,500 by 1975. A system of closed-circuit TV education, aimed at supplying graduate courses to scientists such as those at Cape...
...just that. Through the bore of the heavy-gauge needle, he then inserted a thin plastic tube. And through this he injected red cells, Rh-negative like the mother's, to replace the baby's own Rh-positive cells, which were being destroyed. A fetus can absorb blood cells directly from its abdominal cavity...